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Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek
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Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy Hardcover - 2001

by Robert Hahn


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Anaximander and the Architects opens a previously unexplored avenue into Presocratic philosophy--the technology of monumental architecture. The evidence, coming directly from sixth century B.C.E. building sites and bypassing Aristotle, shows how the architects and their projects supplied their Ionian communities with a sprouting vision of natural order governed by structural laws. Their technological innovations and design techniques formed the core of an experimental science and promoted a rational, not mythopoetical, discourse central to our understanding of the context in which early Greek philosophy emerged. Anaximander's prose book and his rationalizing mentality are illuminated in surprising ways by appeal to the ongoing, extraordinary projects of the archaic architects and their practical techniques.

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  • Title Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy
  • Author Robert Hahn
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 350
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date February 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780791447932 / 0791447936
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Library of Congress subjects Anaximander, Architecture, Ancient - Egypt - Influence
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00036567
  • Dewey Decimal Code 182

About the author

Robert Hahn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He is the author of Formal Deductive Logic, Fifth Edition; Conduct and Constraints: Testing the Limits of the 'Harm Principle;' and Kant's Newtonian Revolution in Philosophy.

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